I took an extra night in Oslo and visited my colleague Pontus Dahlström – sommelier and co-owner of two star-estabishement Maaemo. The dinner was one of the best I’ve experienced in the last 10 years both in Sweden and domestic. Big thanks to sommelier’s finest, Pontus Dahlström & chef par excellence Esben Holmboe Bang!

DINNER 20TH OF MAY

2007 VEUVE FOURNY ’MILLÉSIME – CHAMPAGNE, FRANCE

Nyr from Gröndalen Farm with vendace roe

Salsify presserved with juniper

’Sandwich’ – with smoked mackerel and herb emulsion

Young salad and elderflower viinaegrette

Biodynamic beet filled with sloe berry

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LUSTAU ’OLOROSO PATA DE GALLINA’ – ANDFLAUCIA, ESPAÑA

’RØMMEGROT’ a porridge of very sour cream with dried reindeer heart

Cornette with chicken liver and pickled chanterelles

Mushroom cream with a savoury Muesli

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2012 SCHÄSTZEL ’KABINETT RIESLING’ – RHEINHESSEN, GERMANY

Emulsion of raw Norwegian oyster from BØMLO with a mussel and dill sause

Langoustine cooked in spruced-infused butter and glazed in rapeseed and last year’s spruce